Q Platform for Education
A governed AI platform for educators, students and staff across your institution.
Is the AI in your organisation really under control?
A few teachers on ChatGPT, a Copilot pilot in IT, Gemini in one faculty, Claude in another. Useful work, but it adds up to:
- Sprawl. A licence, a console and a set of risk controls per tool.
- Prompt lottery. Everyone writes their own prompts, so everyone gets different answers.
- Wrong context. Lesson plans and policy answers from someone else’s curriculum, not your rubric or your rules.
- Privacy exposure. Student records and wellbeing notes typed into public tools, outside your duty of care.
- Disconnected. None of it reads your LMS, SIS or SharePoint.
- Licence creep. Per-seat pricing, multiplied by every tool people want.
Q Platform replaces that patchwork with one governed platform, running inside your own Microsoft Azure environment. The rest of this page shows how.
One platform for teaching, learning and your entire institution.
Q Platform helps education providers deploy purpose-built AI agents for teaching, learning, student support and institutional operations. Each agent is grounded in your approved curriculum, policies, systems and knowledge, and comes pre-configured with behaviours, formatting rules and guardrails, so staff and students don’t need to be prompt engineers. Q Platform delivers accurate, consistent and governed AI support while keeping all data within your controlled Microsoft Azure environment.
Illustrative example. The agent is grounded in your syllabus, year-level expectations, assessment standards and approved lesson structures, so nothing here has to be typed into a prompt.
An education AI tool that doesn’t feel like an AI tool.
Teachers don’t need to upload curriculum documents, build prompt libraries or explain formatting rules. The agent already understands your syllabus, year level expectations, learning outcomes, assessment standards and school approved lesson structures.
A teacher simply asks for a lesson plan, activity idea or assessment task, and the agent produces it in the correct format, aligned to the right year level, mapped to the right outcomes and written in the institution’s preferred style.
Higher Education
Improve student support, simplify access to institutional knowledge and reduce administrative pressure across faculties, student services and academic teams at your university or TAFE, across all campuses.
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K–12 Schools
Give teachers time back, improve consistency across lesson planning, marking and reporting, and provide safer AI support for staff and students. Agents operate on your school’s approved curriculum, policies and procedures.
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AI for Teachers
Focused AI assistants for lesson planning, assessment design, marking support, report writing, policy search and student insights, all grounded in approved institutional content and deployed safely inside your Microsoft environment.
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AI grounded in your education content.
Q Platform agents retrieve information only from the sources your institution approves including curriculum documents, LMS content, course materials, policies, rubrics, SharePoint libraries and institutional knowledge bases. This ensures answers are accurate, consistent and aligned with your teaching, learning and operational requirements.
Governance, safety and data protection built for education.
Q Platform runs entirely within your Microsoft Azure environment, keeping all data, prompts and outputs under your institution’s controls, permissions and governance policies. Every agent operates under strict policy enforcement, safety settings and model controls. You decide which LLMs are approved, what content each agent can access and how they behave.
With full auditing of every prompt, response and grounding source, institutions gain detailed records, traceability and confidence that AI use remains safe and compliant.
Cost effective AI for your whole institution.
Q Platform helps institutions reduce the cost of AI adoption by replacing individual user licences with a single, governed platform. Instead of paying for separate AI tools for teachers, staff and students, Q Platform provides institution wide agents that scale across faculties, campuses and departments. This centralised model lowers per user costs, simplifies budgeting and ensures AI investment delivers value across teaching, learning and operations.
How Haileybury deployed a secure AI platform across 150+ staff
Haileybury partnered with Antares to deploy a secure AI capability embedded within the school’s Microsoft environment. Staff now use AI confidently across policy search, curriculum design, reporting and daily administration, saving up to 10 hours a week while maintaining full data control.
- 150+Staff on the platform
- Up to 10 hrsSaved per staff member, per week
How Q Platform for Education differs from Copilot and ChatGPT
Many education institutions use a mix of AI tools. Copilot supports individual productivity inside Microsoft 365. ChatGPT is useful for general brainstorming and experimentation. Q Platform provides governed, institution specific AI agents grounded in approved curriculum, policies and systems, and unlike Copilot or ChatGPT, it doesn’t require staff or students to be prompt engineers.
| Capability | ChatGPT / OpenAI | Microsoft Copilot | Q Platform for Educationby Antares |
|---|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | General-purpose AI for writing, ideation and developer-led integrations | Personal productivity inside Microsoft 365 | Governed AI agents for education institutions |
| Best suited for | Drafting, brainstorming, coding help, experimentation | Summaries, writing, meeting notes, task support | Teaching, learning, student support, operations |
| Ease of use | Requires prompt engineering and manual instructions | Requires prompting skill for best results | Pre-configured agents with built-in instructions, behaviours and approved sources. No prompt engineering required. |
| Grounded answers | Public data unless integrated with private sources | Limited grounding via Microsoft Graph | Approved curriculum, policies, LMS, SIS and institutional content |
| Governance and compliance | Varies by deployment (OpenAI vs Azure OpenAI) | Microsoft 365 audit logs and Microsoft guardrails | Full audit logs, role-based access, model controls and institution-defined guardrails |
| Personas | Possible with custom development | Single assistant | Multiple agents for students, teachers and staff, out of the box |
| System integrations | Possible via APIs and custom development | Microsoft 365 apps | LMS, SIS, CRM, ERP, SharePoint and institutional APIs |
| Model flexibility | OpenAI models (plus others via Azure OpenAI) | OpenAI and Anthropic | Any model available in Azure AI Foundry |
Expertise in Microsoft, AI and the Education Sector
Antares has been delivering large scale AI solutions for education institutions since 2017. We’ve helped many of Australia’s most recognisable schools, universities and TAFEs modernise their data, AI, applications and Microsoft 365 environments. Our experience spans the rollout of institution wide AI agents and secure Azure deployments, through to LMS integrations, student support automation, Microsoft Fabric analytics, SharePoint intranets, Teams governance and more.
Q Platform for Education
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FAQs about Q Platform for Education
No. Q Platform runs entirely inside your institution’s Microsoft Azure environment. All prompts, responses, grounding sources and agent actions stay within your tenancy under your security, permissions and governance policies.
Yes. Q Platform enforces institution controlled guardrails, approved knowledge sources and role based access. Student facing agents can be restricted to curriculum aligned content, safe language settings and age appropriate behaviours.
Copilot supports individual productivity inside Microsoft 365. Q Platform provides institution-specific AI agents grounded in approved curriculum, policies, LMS/SIS content and operational systems. Most education institutions run both: Copilot for personal productivity, Q Platform for governed Education AI Agents and Chatbots.
Yes. Q Platform integrates with LMS platforms (Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard), SIS systems, SharePoint, CRM/ERP platforms and custom APIs. This allows agents to retrieve approved content and support workflows across teaching, learning and administration.
With Q Platform, you choose the approved knowledge sources, including curriculum documents, LMS content, policies, rubrics, intranet libraries, operational procedures and more. AI Agents only retrieve information from these sources, never from the open internet.
Yes, if you are using a secure AI solution like Q Platform for Education. Because Q Platform runs inside your Microsoft tenancy, staff can include contextual student information without exposing data externally. Role based access ensures only authorised staff can use sensitive information.
Most institutions deploy Q Platform in a few weeks. Timelines depend on the number of agents, the state of your content sources and the complexity of integrations. Many schools and universities begin with one or two high value AI Agents and expand from there.
No. Q Platform is designed to give teachers time back, not replace them. It supports lesson planning, curriculum differentiation, reporting, policy search and administrative tasks so teachers can focus on high value work.
Yes. Q Platform supports multi campus universities, school networks and federated environments. Each campus or school can have its own agents, approved content and governance settings, all managed centrally.
Q Platform supports any model available in Azure AI Foundry, including OpenAI, Anthropic Claude and Meta Llama. Institutions choose which models are approved, and Q Platform enforces those choices through governance controls.
Pricing is based on deployment scope, number of agents and integration requirements. Q Platform is designed to scale across your entire institution without per student or staff licensing costs. Contact us for a quote.